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Beginners: Write what you want

You’re your own boss, so don’t dither, just be honest about what you really want to write, urges Adrian Magson

As fans of Disney’s Jungle Book will know, there’s a quartet of vultures who appear at one point and, with unlikely Scouse accents, ask the immortal question: ‘What shall we do?’ to which comes the spinning-wheel reply, ‘I dunno. What do you wanna do?’

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